Acipenser transmontanus Richardson 1837

Acipenser transmontanus Richardson, 1837. White Sturgeon. Perhaps to 6 m (20 ft) FL (Moyle 2002). Moyle notes that the largest length records for this species were made before 1900 and “were subject to inaccurate measurements and exaggerated reporting.” Moyle also notes the largest recent record, fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Acipenseriformes
Acipenseridae
Acipenser
Acipenser transmontanus
Yukon
Baja
Gulf of Alaska
Milton
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5818807
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818807
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Summary:Acipenser transmontanus Richardson, 1837. White Sturgeon. Perhaps to 6 m (20 ft) FL (Moyle 2002). Moyle notes that the largest length records for this species were made before 1900 and “were subject to inaccurate measurements and exaggerated reporting.” Moyle also notes the largest recent record, from Oregon, was 3.2 m (10.5 ft) long. Northern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía de Todos Santos, northern Baja California (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2011). Depth: to 122 m (400 ft) at sea (Miller and Lea 1972). Anadromous. Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 31, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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